Lavandula dentata L.

Toothed lavender (en), Lavande dentée (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Lavandula

Characteristics

Bushy shrub to c. 1 m high, often grey and with stellate tomentum, strongly aromatic. Lvs sessile, linear to narrow-oblong, sometimes revolute, mostly 2-3 cm long, pinnate with obtuse leaflets to pinnatifid or crenulate, with scattered simple hairs in the stellate tomentum. Peduncle to 30 cm long, much > spike; spike 3-4.5 cm long, broad-cylindric, dense. Fertile bracts 7-11 mm long, broad-ovate, apiculate, purplish; sterile apical bracts 7-10 mm long, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, to nearly elliptic, mauve-blue. Calyx 5-7 mm long, tubular, ± tomentose outside; dorsal appendage broadly reniform to suborbicular, ± mucronate. Corolla 8-10 mm long; tube > calyx by c. 2 mm; limb mauve, somewhat irregular; lobes 1.5-2.5 mm long. Nutlets c. 1.5 mm long, oblong, not mucilaginous when wet.
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A shrub. It grows 1-1.5 m high. The leaves are grey-green. The stems are slightly downy. The leaves have deep teeth. The flowers are pale purple and in spikes 2.5-5 cm long. They are on long stems above the leaves.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread barochory
Mature width (meter) 1.0
Mature height (meter) 0.8 - 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 0.21
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A warm temperate plant. It grows in dry rocky places. It suits hardiness zones 9-11. Kyneton Botanical Gardens.
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Arid regions, thickets, open woods, rocks on clay and siliceous soils.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 2-6
Soil texture 2-7
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-10

Usage

The leaves are used to make a liqueur.
Uses environmental use essential oil material medicinal ornamental
Edible flowers
Therapeutic use Catarrh (unspecified), Wound (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -12
Optimum temperature (C°) 15 - 24
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Lavandula dentata habit picture by Lucía Muñoz Sanchez (cc-by-sa)
Lavandula dentata habit picture by Collados Ana (cc-by-sa)
Lavandula dentata habit picture by Magalie Delalande (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Lavandula dentata leaf picture by Cerver Diego (cc-by-sa)
Lavandula dentata leaf picture by Ramón Valle (cc-by-sa)
Lavandula dentata leaf picture by Annua Artemisa (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Lavandula dentata flower picture by zoiskourtis (cc-by-sa)
Lavandula dentata flower picture by Collados Ana (cc-by-sa)
Lavandula dentata flower picture by Bouharaoua BOUDANI (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Lavandula dentata fruit picture by costantina costantina righetto (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Lavandula dentata world distribution map, present in Bulgaria, Algeria, Eritrea, Spain, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Palau, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Yemen

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:449031-1
WFO ID wfo-0000224153
COL ID 3SNDP
BDTFX ID 75708
INPN ID 105304
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Lavandula dentata Lavandula pinnata Lavandula dentata f. pinnatilobulata Lavandula dentata var. rendalliana Lavandula dentata var. balearica Stoechas dentata Lavandula dentata f. multibracteolata Lavandula dentata f. rosea Lavandula dentata f. albiflora

Lower taxons

Lavandula dentata var. candicans Lavandula dentata var. dentata